An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Commercial GTO 1 mission at 1:04 a.m. Sunday, July 13 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Known as Dror-1, the payload was a geostationary communications satellite for Israel. No further details were released.